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D. SCOTT LUNCH BUCKET.

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Patented Mar. 5, 1918.

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DELBERT SCOTT, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

LUNCH-BUCKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Mar. 5, 1918.

Application filed June 25, 1917. Serial No. 176,646.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DELBERT Soon, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lunch-Buckets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in lunch buckets and more particularly, al-

though not necessarily limited thereto, to lunch buckets of the type usually used by miners.

The objects of my invention are, first, to improve the construction of lunch buckets equipped with an upper section removably fitted into a lower section and forming a closure therefor; second, to provide the lower section with a liquid outlet means adapted to be formed in the wall of the lower bucket section and so arranged as to be protected from injury or accidental displace. ment, either by one of the bail ears or the upper rolled edge of the lower bucket section and, third, to facilitate the pouring of liquid fromthe lower bucket section without necessitating the removal of the upper section from its operative or normal position; and, fourth,.to so form the liquid outlet means that it will not project outwardly beyond the periphery of the upper rolled edge of the lower bucket section.

\Vith the above and other objects in view, my invention consists in the novel arrangement and combination of parts, as will be more fully described hereinafter and finally pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

Referring to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification wherein like characters of reference denote similar parts throughout the several views:

Figure l, is a side elevation, partly in section, of a lunch bucket constructed in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2, is a side elevation .of a portion of the lunch bucket illustrating the relation of the liquid outlet means to one of the ears of the bail.

Fig. 3, is a sectional view on line A-A of Fig. 2. q

Fig. 4, is a detail in vertical section of that portion of the lunch bucket provided with the liquid outlet means.

Fig. 5, is a modification of my invention showing the liquid outlet means formed at a point remote from one ofthe ears to which the bail is connected.

Fig. 6, is a detail, in section, of Fig. 5.

F ig. 7 is a still further modification showing the liquid outlet means in the form of a pocket or reservoir instead of a substantially vertical channel or groove.

Fig. 8, is a detail, in section, of Fig. 7

Fig. 9 is a still further modification of my invention showing the liquid outlet means arranged adjacent one of the ears, but not provided with a liquid outlet aperture;

Fig. 10, is a detail, in section, through the liquid outlet means shown in Fig. 9.

Referring to the drawings, the reference character 1, designates the lower-section of the lunch bucket proper having the upper rolledor beaded edge 2'. The lower-section 1, is equipped with the bail 3, having its ends 4, hingedly connected to suitable ears 5 and 6, which ears are suitably fixed near the upper edge of the lower-section 1. The bail 3, is provided with a suitable handle 7.

The lower bucket-section 1, is provided with the removable upper-section 8. This upper-section 8, which forms a closure for the lower-section 1, is provided intermediate its upper and lower-edgeswith an interior horizontal, peripheral head 9. 9, is adapted to rest upon the upper rolled edge or head 2, of the lower bucket-section 1, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 4. The upper-section 8, is also provided with a re-- movable cover 10, able construction. v

The lower bucket-section 1, is provided, as illustrated in one form of my invention in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4, adjacent the ear 5, with a suitably and substantially vertically disposed liquid outlet means 11. This liquid pouring means is formed in the wall of the lower bucket-section 1,bypressingthe material outwardly 'to provide an interior groove or channel 12, which acts, so to speak, as a reservoir when the bucket is'in a tipped position. The channel or groove-12, has the lower inclined side portions 13, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The liquid outlet which may be of any suitmeans '11, is also provided with the tapered lower-portion-14. Further the liquid outlet means 11, is provided with a suitable liquid outlet aperture 15, arranged near the upper end of the liquid outlet means 11, and in the frontface thereof. The liquid outlet means 11 does not extend outwardly beyond the periphery of the rolled upper edge 2 of the bucket section 1.

As clearly shown in Fig. 2, the ear 5,

This bead which is provided with the enlarged, lower portion 16, is provided, at the bottom thereof, with a suitable recess 1?, adapted to receive and straddle the upper-portion of the liquid outlet means 11. The ear 5, extends outwardly, as at 18, adjacent the top of the liquid outlet means 11, and thereby adapted to form a guard or shield for the protection of the liquid outlet means 11, to prevent the liquid outlet aperture 15, from becoming easily injured or displaced through contact with another object. The enlarged lowerportion 16, of the ear 5, is suitably fixed, as at 19, to the lower bucket-section l, as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

To prevent insects from finding their way into the lower bucket-section 1, through the liquid outlet aperture 15, I may provide the interior wall of the liquid outlet means and spanning the liquid outlet aperture 15, with a suitable screen disk, or its equivalent 20, which screen or sieve may be suitably fixed in position by any well-known fastening means, such as solder, or its equivalent, as clearly shown in Figs. 3 and a.

To further prevent insects, dust, or foreign substances, or particles of any kind from finding their way into the lower bi1cket section 1, I may provide the outerface of the liquid outlet means 11, with a movable disk 21, pivoted, as at 22, and provided with the manipulating ear 23. The disk 22, whenin its upright or closed position and in which position it is frictionally held, as is manifest, it will be observed will form a positive closure for the liquid outlet aperture 15. When the closure is in its lowermostposition, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, the liquid outlet aperture 15, is in an open state and will permit liquid contained within the lower-section 1, such as water, to be easily and readily poured out of'the aperture 15, by taking hold of the bail 8, with one hand, and tipping the bucket until the liquid therein runs out of the aperture 15. In mines, especially, miners use the water in their lunch bucket to pour over the carbid for their lamps, and with this type of bucket they obviate the necessity for removing the upper-section 8, of the bucket, to enable them to pour the water from the lower-section. Coffee or their liquids may be equally as easily poured from the lower-section 1, when so desired.

or Referring to the modification shown in Figs. 5 and 6, it will be observed that the liquid pouring means 11, is arranged in a slightly higher position than shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 4:, that it is positioned at a point remote from the'ear 5, and further that the same is protected or guarded by means of the upper rolled edge or bead 2, of the lower bucket-section 1, instead of the ear 5, as shown in Fig. 2. I v V V Figs. 7 and 8, show a still further modification wherein the liquid outlet means 11,

as a reservoir allowing the liquid, when the bucket is tipped, to find itsway out between the rolled edge 2, of the lower-section" 1, and the head 9, of the upper-section 8, as

at 25, whenever the upper-section 1, 'isa' slightly loose fit with the lower-section, as clearly shown in Fig. 10.

he liquid outlet means, it will be observed, is exceedingly simple in its construction, is adapted to be formed integral with the lower bucket-section 1, and as it is arranged in a protected or shielded position with relation to either one of the ears of the bail, or to the upper rolled or beaded edge 2, of the lower-section 1, it is practically indestructible and is not liable to be easily broken, injured, or displaced by other objects and the liquid outlet means rendered useless, as is often the case with buckets having separate attached liquid outlet means.

I am aware that slight minor changes may be made in the exact form of the liquid outlet means without departing from the spirit of my invention, and as it is understood that it is possible that various changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor detailsof construction may be resorted to, I reserve the right to make any such changes as may fairly fall within the scope of the appended claims, when fairly construed, without departing from the spirit or sacrilicing any of the advantages of the invention.

What I claim is:

1. A bucket having an upper rolled edge and a bail and provided with opposed ears connecting the bail with the bucket, a portion of the wall of said bucket being pressed outwardly and having a liquid outlet apefture, said outwardly pressed portion of the bucket adapted to form a reservoir when the bucket is held in a tipped position, said outwardly pressed portion of said bucket adapted to be protected and guarded by means of the upper rolled edge of said 3. A bucket having a bail, and provided with opposite ears connecting the bail with the bucket, said bucket being provided adjacent one of the ears with an integrally formed liquid outlet means consisting of an interiorly grooved portion of the bucket extending upwardly to one of said ears and provided with a front liquid outlet aperture, said ear having its lower-portion bifurcated and straddling the upper-portion of the liquid outlet means and extending outwardly at the top thereof, whereby the ear is adapted to form a guard to protect the liquid outlet aperture of the liquid outlet means.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name to the specification.

DELBERT SCOTT.

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Washington, D. O. 

